Playing-cards.



PATENTED MAR. 26, 1907.

A. K. FERRIS. PLAYING CARDS.

lmmll APPLIOATION FILED MAR. 1, 1906.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ALONZO FERRIS, OF NEW YORK, N. Y..

PL YIN -CARDS.

Specification of Iietters Patent.

Patented March 26, 1967.

Application filed March 1, 1906. Serial No. 303,657.

To all whom/lit may concern:

Be it known that I, ALoNZo K. FERRIs, a

-citizen of the United States, residing at New York city, in the county andState of New York, haveinvented new and useful Imeach suit comprising ten digit-cards, the

digit-cards being indicated by the reference characters A, B, C, and D. The digit-cards of each suit are correspondingly colored and provided with a digit. The deck further comprises 'a plurality of interchangercards, preferably three in number, and each of which is adapted to force an adversary to play from a different suit. By way of example, the suit (1 is red, the suit 6 black, the suit 7 green, and the suit 9 yellow. The interchanger-cards of the suit (1 are indicated by the reference characters a, b, and c, and thecard a has a ortion thereof colored to correspond with t e color of the suit e, the card I) has a portion thereof colored to correspond with the suit f, and the card a has a portion thereof colored to correspond to the color of the suit 9. The interchanger-cards of the suit e areindicated by the reference charactersa b c, and the card a has a portion thereof colored to correspond to the color of the-suit f, the card I) has a portion thereof colored to correspond to the color of the suit-g, and the card 0 has aportion thereof colored to correspond to the color of the suit d. The interchanger-cards of the suit f are indicated by the. reference characters a, 6 and. 0 The card a has a portion thereof colored to corres 0nd to the suit 9, the card 6 has a portion thereof colored to correspond to the suit (1, and the card 0 has a portion thereof colored to correspond to the color of the suit 2. The interchanger suit-cards of the suit g are indicated by the reference characters a 6 and c. The card a has a portion thereof colored to correspond to the color of the suit d, the card 17 has a portion thereof colored to correspond to the color of the suit 2, and the card 0 has a portion thereof colored to correspond to the color of the suit Each of the interchanger-cards of a respective suit has the remaining portion thereof colored to correspond to the color of its respective suit. That portion of each of the interchanger suit-cards which is diflerently colored is arranged, by way of example,

centrally of the card and substantially circular in contour. ,Each of the suit-cards, with the exception of the interchanger suitcards, is suitably designated. By way of example, a circular uncolored space is provided centrally of each of the suit-cards, and in the said uncolored space a digit, as at 72, is provided. 4

- Suppose, for example, a layer shows a tendency to build or play with the cards of the red suit 01. Then if an opponent play on the red suit-card cl played by such playeran interchanger of the red, for example, said 1nterchanger a, having a black center the opponent will compel the player to begin build-- ing with the black suit-cards 0. Such is the general outline of one way of-using the cards; but the manner of playing is immaterial.

The modification shown in Fig. 2 shows the adaptation of theinvention to an ordinary deck of playing-cards. The thirteen cards customarily for each suit are retained and the interchangers added. By the addition of the interchangers a deck is set forth consisting of sixty-four cards. In Flg. 2 the diamond-suit cards are indicated by the reference character'E, the heart-suit cards by '-the reference character F, the club-suit cards by the reference character G, and the spadesuit cards by the reference character H. The interchangers for the diamond-suit cards are indicated by the reference character 'b, 7, and k. The card iis provided with a club-pip, the card with a heart-pip, and the card It with a spade-pip. The interchangers for the heart-suit are indicated by the reference characters Z, m, and n. The card Z is provided with a spade-pip, the card m with a diamondpip, and the card nwith a club-pip. The 1nterchangers for the club-suit cards are 111d1- cated by the references 0, p, and g. The card '0. is provide dwith a spade-pip,the card I) with a diamond-pip, and the card q with a spade-suit cards are indicated by the referroo heart-pip, and the 'interchangers for the I once characters 1' s t. The cardris provided with a club-pip, the card 8 is provided with adiamond-pip, and the card t with a heart P P- Suppose such a deck is used, for example, In playing whist. If a player has led in the diamond-suit, then the next player, instead of following suit, could place on the diamond led an interchanger-for example, a diamondcard with a spot of another suit, as hearts, clubs, or spade. The next succeeding player Wouldthcn be obliged to either follow in such changed suit or put on another interchangecard. This illustration is no limitation of the invention, but merely shows a manner of applying the invention.

A suitable design for the cards can be obtained, as seen. By having, for example, a suit, such as heart, formed by cards each having an inner field of the suit shape or shape of a heart, with suitably-colored border and interior number or designation, neat suits are obtained. The interchangers can be made by having the inner fie1dsay of the heartsuitprovided with the suit to be interpolatedas, for example, aspade, a diamond, or club. Such interchangers in the heartsuit can be called heart-spade, heartdiamond, or heart-club.

What I cla m as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A deck of playing-cards, comprising a plurality of sets of suit-cards, the suit-cards of one set being corres oudingly colored but differently colored wit 1 respect to the suitcards ofthe other sets, a plurality of interchanger-cards for each set of suit-cards, the number of interchanger-cards of each set being less by one than the number of suits, each of the interchanger-cards for each set of suitcardshaving a portion thereof of the same color as its suit, and further differently colored from the color of its suit but corresponding in color to the color of one of the other suits.

2. A deck of playing-cards com rising a plurality of sets of suit-cards, eaci of the cards of each of the sets of suit-cards being correspondingly indicated and further differently indicated with respect to each other, and interchangcr-cards for each set of suitcards, the number of the interchanger-cards of each suit bein less by one than the number of suits, eac 1 of the interchanger-cards of one suit provided with an indication to indicate to which suit it belongs, and further provided with an indication corresponding to the indication of one of the other suits.

3! A deck of playing-cards comprising a plurality of sets of suit-cards, the suit-cards of each set being correspondingly colored and each provided with an indication different from one another, a plurality of interchangercards for each set of suit-cards, the number of the interchanger-cards of each set being less'by one than the number of the suits, each of the interchanger-cards for each set of suitcards having a portion thereof of the same color as its suit, and further provided with a portion differently colored from the color of the suit but corresponding in color to the color of one of the other suits.

4. A deck of playing-cards comprising four sets of suit-cards, the suit-cards of one set differently colored with respect to the suitcards of the other sets, three interchangercards for each set of suit-cards, the said three interchanger-cards each having a portion thereof colored to corres end to the same color as its suit, one of said interchanger-cards having a' ortion correspondingly colored to one of the suits other than the suit to which the interchanger-card belongs, another of the interchangencards having a portion corresponding in color to another of the suits other than the suit to which the interchanger-card belongs, and the other of the interchangcr-cards having a portion thereof correspondingly colored to the other of the suits other than that to which the interchanger-card belongs.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

ALUNZO K. FERRIS. Witnesses:

' EDWARD WIESNER,

GEORGE HULsBERG. 

